Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3Ill EARLY STATUTES, HEAD-MASTERS, AND ETONIANS In the original scheme for the foundation of Eton College, as stated in the first chapter, the Founder's body corporate consisted, according to the charter of October 1440, of "one Provost and ten priests, four clerks and six chorister boys, who are to serve daily there in the celebration of divine worship, and of twenty-five poor and indigent scholars, who are to learn grammar; and also of twenty-five poor and infirm men, whose duty it shall be to pray there continually for our health and welfare so long as we live, and for our soul when we shall have departed this life, and for the souls of the illustrious Prince, Henry, our father, late King of England and France, also of the Lady Katherine, of most noble memory, late his wife, our mother, and for the souls of all our ancestors, and of all the faithful, who are dead; and also of one master, or teacher in grammar, whose duty it shall be to instruct in the rudiments of grammar the said indigent scholars, and all others whatsoever who may come together from any part of our kingdom of England to the said College, gratuitously, and without the exaction of money or any other thing.'' It will be seen from this charter that the provision of education for the boys of other than indigent persons was provided for by the Founder simultaneously from his first intention. Edward Hall, the chronicler, says that Henry VI. " founded a solempne school at Eton, a towne next unto Wyndesore, in the which he hath established a college of sad priestes, with a greet nonibre of children, whiche bee there of his coste frankely and freely taught the eruditaments and rules of grammer." Henry VI. lost no time in making nominations to his new foundation, for in the Papal Bull, which immediately ensued, the following names are ... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.